{"id":9446,"date":"2023-12-14T17:26:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=9446"},"modified":"2023-12-14T17:26:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:26:51","slug":"briggate-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/briggate-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Briggate in August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hopefully I will catch up before the end of the year. These are from August 2023, a few minutes by the site of Shipley Cinema on Briggate, Shipley and a look around Potter Pits<\/a>. I have yet to put something together of the Harley Rally at August Bank Holiday Weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The small piece of ground at Fox Corner where the cinema used to be has been reclaimed rather nicely by Nature. A big advertising screen has been installed on the end of the first building there and it looks as though they might be keen on keeping the plant growth to a height such that it doesn’t hide the screen from view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Teasel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ragwort<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wild Carrot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yarrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wild Carrot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wild Carrot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Buddleia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rosebay Willowherb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Buddleia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Date stone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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display screen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I try to identify the things I take photos of – Teasel, Ragwort, Wild Carrot, Yarrow, Buddleia, Rosebay Willowherb and no doubt plenty of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is now almost 11 years since the space was a pile of rubble. This was taken on 19 Jan 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rowan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bradford Beck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I then went across the road. The Rowan trees shading the graves on the slope were full of berries. I then headed into Potter’s Pits, I have yet to see any reference to this name, I hope I have it right. Passing where Bradford Beck was visible unfortunately showed that it was polluted. I reported it to the Environment Agency but I expect that they only have the resources to log the call and not enough people to see that it is followed up and get faulty drain connections fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bindweed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hardheads (Centaurea Nigra)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Carder Bee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cow Parsley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Blackberry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Knapweed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Field Scabious<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Field Scabious<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Clover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Field Scabious<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Blackberry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wild Grasses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ichneumon Wasp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ragwort<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hardheads<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bee on Knapweed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Potter’s Pits was quieter than I expected. Plenty of Bees but few butterflies and birds. I could hear a few Grasshoppers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shipley station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shipley station bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Burnet Moth Chrysalis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I then went to have a quick look at the Butterfly Meadow at Shipley Station. The wording of the sign next to the bridge caught my eye. Given that a double decker bus is over 14 feet high the wording of the sign on the bridge seems unusual to me. Wouldn’t it be better to say “will not fit”? I suppose the height sign says it will not fit and the red and white sign is implying – “OK. You know it won’t fit but if you feel like trying then the overhead wires might get you.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spotted a few Large White butterflies in the meadow and the casing from a Burnet Moth Chrysalis but not much else. I also checked the land between platform 5 and the carpark. This is where I have seen some Common Blue butterflies in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hopefully I will catch up before the end of the year. These are from August 2023, a few minutes by the site of Shipley Cinema on Briggate, Shipley and a look around Potter Pits. I have yet to put something together of the Harley Rally at August Bank Holiday Weekend. The small piece of ground […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Potter Pits and Briggate in August","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paul","category-potter-pits"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/7D2_1644.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kGoX-2sm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9446"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9487,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions\/9487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}